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Monday, January 26, 2015

Getting
away with anything in “Vice” will keep the audience on their toes
and on the edge of their seats as Bruce Willis and Thomas Jane bring
us to a dystopian future where wealthy clients can live out their
wildest and sometimes most violent fantasies.

In
“Vice,” an artificially engineered woman escapes a hedonistic
resort created by Julian Michaels (Willis) seeks vengeance on those
that imprisoned her. Kelly (Ambyr Childers), a resort ‘Resident,’
is having her memory re-installed after a rough night with a client
but there is a glitch and flashbacks of where she came from help her
make a daring escape. When Roy Tedeschi (Jane), a gruff, gum-shoe
detective gets word that an Artificial is on the loose, it’s a race
against time to track her down and stop the aberrant behaviors in
Vice from becoming the natural order of things.

“Julian
Michaels' corporation has built Vice, a resort for the wealthy where
they can do anything that you could possibly imagine, even murder,
rape, or kill because the permanent Residents are artificial, cloned
from human DNA and built on endoskeletons,” begins director Brian
A. Miller. It took us a couple of days to truly discover the
character together and then play off that," explained Miller of
his work with Childers. “So when Kelly starts growing you see the
evolution of that character, she is learning bit-by-bit. It’s so
interesting to have such a talented young actress that as you pull
the string it takes you from one scene to the next. You’re growing
with her, learning as she’s evolving all the way throughout the
process. Ambyr just knocked it out of the park!”

"I
play Kelly, an Artificial or an android living every day in a
continuous loop," explains Ambyr Childers. "Myself and all
the other androids are reset every 24 hours. Every night when we go
to bed, a bracelet activates so we cannot remember but the humans can
so they easily recognize the androids. Kelly has a few glitches in
her system and she breaks away and ends up wanting to take down
Vice.”

Evan
(Bryan Greenberg) was a top bio-mechanical engineer at a robotics
firm bought out a decade ago by Julian. "I helped engineer the
Artificials and my intentions were good, but Julian exploited the
Artificials for the wrong reasons," explains Bryan Greenberg
whose character Evan feels guilty for what Kelly has become. "It's
a very complicated relationship between Evan and Kelly because he
created her in the image of his dying wife. He's very conflicted
because when he looks at her he sees his wife but he knows it’s not
her. She can be so much more than just a Vice pleasure-bot and he
wants to help her.”

“Ambyr
is solid and really carries this film," continues Greenberg, of
his screen partner’s moving performance. "I remember the first
scene we did and she just had tears coming down her eyes and I
thought, 'Wow you got it! This is going to be good!’ I loved
working with her and I think the audience is going to love watching
her.”